The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16
Wonders Of Nature.

Justly Ill Tue lhc VI III grunge Icc
in The grove of Mr.. w. II. Barlow,
on Lake Jessup. The tree is budded
on sour stock and has been in bear
ing for two years. 1t has upon it
at the present time an orange from
last year not yet ripe, dozen or so
of this years crop and is in full
bloom again. This tree, am told
blooms twice each year. Mr.. Bar
low has refused good offers for the
tree and can ardly be induced to
sell the buds.
Chicago Herald.-Ordinary Will
Jams, of Lumpkin, Ca, has in his
possession two corncobs which are
curiously formed. One of them re-
sembles the hand of Il human being
the fingers being about the size of
human. The fingers look like those
of human when the hand is partial
ly closed. There are six fingers on
the cob. The long stem to the cob
resembles the lower part of the arm.
1t came from his farm in Union
county. The other came from the
farm of Colonel Boyd, and looks
like the hoof of cow.
GAINESVILLE (Ga.) Gazette.-Mr. J.
P. Hunt of Round Oak, has some
thing of a curiosity on his place in
the way of honeycomb, built on
the outside of tree. The bees have
made the comb now over two feet
long and the limb from which it
hangs is its only protection from
the rain.
Marietta (Ga.) Journal.--A swarm
of bees have found home in the
boxing Of the northwest room, sec
ond story, of Harwood Seminary.
Recently part of the Dashboard and
some of the flooring were removed
and a quantity of honey obtained.
The bees have gone TO work again
to lay in new supply of Sweets"
The question with Professor Legare
now is how to dislodge them, so as
to use the room for an art room.
Chicago News.-Two Vincennes
(Ind.) men were saving a white
oak log in two. Whenthe saw pen
etrated the log some distance n
strange noise was heard, resembling
the kissing of a goose, Some one
lighted a match and held it to the
narrow opening, when a blaze shot
up some six feet high and burned |
with steady red flame. The flame
was smothered, but again relighted,
each time burning as before.
Alfred Carpenter in Nature.-So
many people have expressed their
surprise at hearing that I constant
ly saw monkeys breaking open oys-
tiers with stone on the islands off
South Burmah, that it may be of
interest to give a short description
of their methods of using such a
tool. The low-water rocks of the
islands of the Morgui Archipela 90
are covered with oysters, large and !
small. \ monkey, probably maca-
Gus cynomolgus, which infests these
islands, prowls about the shore when
the tide is low, opening the rock
oysters with IL stone by striking the
base of the upper valves until it dis
locates and breaks up.
Poughkccpsie News An interest
ing phenomenon has for some time
past been observed on the eastern
coast Of the Caspian Sea. The Kara
Bobhas is an estuary nearly scpar-
ated from the main body of the sea
by a bank through which there is
an inlet. The evaporation from this
gulf is SO great that current con-
tinually sets in from the Caspian.
and, as there is no return current,
the water Of the gulf becomes more
and more salifcrous, and deposit of
salt is in course Of formation. The
natural result Of this would appear
to be that in time this gulf will be
cut off from the Caspian, and being
thus dried up, will become an cx-
tensive salt bed.
Auburn Dispatch.-A wcll-driller
on the farm of Henry Watson, near
Alfred Centre, N. ", at depth of
20 feet struck spring Of wonderful
force. The water overlooked the
garden, yard and fields, and the
stream is wearing a large outlet from
the earth, with no diminution of
volume. 1t seems to be similar to
the famous Belle Plains well in
Iowa.
New Orleans Timcs-Dcmocrat.-
DR.. J. Higgins, of Hale county, Ala.
has just discovered a skeleton of
mastodon, which may prove of in
terest and value to men of science.
1t was found in Prairie creek, near